Thursday, December 17, 2015

I really like making these foundation pieced mini quilts and I just had to make another one. It is similar to the one last week and this is a little larger.

I do simple quilting around the blocks and I used varigated thread.

Here is the back before I quilted the front....

Here are four coasters I made from some string blocks I made from scraps of fabric. Some strips were only one inch wide and ended up ½" in the block or less. I usually like the look of straight line quilting but didn't like it on the first coaster....so on the others I changed to the #4 stitch at 3.5 wide and 1.5 length. The fronts and backs are each quilted separately and then right sides joined together and turned and top stitched. Very fun and very easy.

Here are the backs of the coasters....

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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Here is what came in my quilty box this month. Leah Day chose the items for this box. She has a video at her site here. Beautiful Island Batiks in colors I really like. Be sure to check her site and check quiltybox.com. Very fun surprise to get in the mail every month.

Friday, November 27, 2015

I finished this little tabletopper last night during halftime of the Aztec basketball game. The game was way too exciting to do any quilting during the game. And our Aztecs won in a thriller!

About this Christmas mat...I used four-patches that I had left over from 2011 when I made a mat that was similar but it is bigger. The four-patches were made from charm squares. I needed a 12x12 mat for an end table with a Christmas theme. This could also be used as a candle mat.
The fabric is 12 days of Christmas by Kate Spain.

Closeup photo before I did the hand quilting. The machine quilting is decorative stitch #332 on my
Bernina at default setting (5.5 x3.2). The thread is varigated Yuletide by Superior and for the hand quilting I used aurifil 12 wt #5006 (tart finishing set from Fat Quarter Shop).

I am linking to crazy mom quilts finish it up Friday.....
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Thursday, November 19, 2015

I have wanted to make another ticker tape quilt for awhile. They are so fun to make.

I got a lot of music fabric at an estate sale and it seemed like a fun background for a mug rug.

These are about the easiest thing to make...and here is a short tutorial on how I made it:

Sooooo.....grab some scraps and start sewing......Place your scraps of fabric leaving some spaces..
I used the music fabric for the front and the back and cut it larger than the batting. I brought the back around and used it for a self binding. The photo shows how I folded the back all around and pinned to keep it out of the way when trimming the front and batting.

Then I trimmed the back 1" beyond the front and folded it in half and then half again....
then brought it around to the top.....

I used a decorative stitch around the edge on top. On my Bernina I used stitch #332...
the setting was 2.2 length and 4.5 width

This one is 10 x 5½............AND I will be making larger ones too.
Let me know if you make one of these.........

Since this is a finish...I am linking with crazy mom quilts Finish it up Friday...
Also linking to Freemoion by the River Linky Tuesday...

Thursday, October 29, 2015

I finished four small projects this week. Two placemats with Awesome fabric on the sides and top and Harvest fabric in the center to match the border fabric of the tablerunner from last post. I did x hand quilting on one of them. Two pot holders I used same fabrics and one I stitched in the ditch around the center. The other one I machine stitched along the seams before I turned it.

I am linking with crazymomquilts.

The last photo shows the foreground placemats from 2012 and the new things I have finished this week and last week.

Friday, October 23, 2015

I am so happy with this tablerunner. It is 42x15 1/2 and I got the free pattern for the block from Sarah at sewjoycreations.com. The first block of her pattern is what I used and the blog post was August 26, 2015. I used fabric from a kit for the blocks. For the outer border I used fabric I purchased last fall in Oak Glen. Photos taken outside yesterday and I included closeups of each block. I quilted with black thread on the green squares with x pattern and in the ditch around the pumpkins. I am using the border fabric for placemats and the sides and top are Awesome fabric to match up with placemats I made in 2012.
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I grew up in Iowa and we started our family there and now we live on the west coast. I am an RN who enjoys quilting, cardmaking and have a passion for learning new things. I enjoy getting acquainted with those having similar interests and appreciate all the incredible experiences life has to offer!!